Keraia
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אִם

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hebrewOld TestamentConditional1,070 occurrences37 books931 verses

Definition

a primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
Traditional renderings: (and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), + but, either, + except, + more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, + save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, + surely (no more, none, not), though, + of a truth, + unless, + verily, when, whereas, whether, while, + yet.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אִם:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,070 total
  1. Numbers 14:35אִם־ · and I will surely
    I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do these things to this entire wicked congregation, which has conspired against Me. They will meet their end in the wilderness, and there they will die.”
  2. Numbers 15:24אִ֣ם · and if
    …and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.
  3. Numbers 15:27וְאִם־ · Also, if
    Also, if one person sins unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.
  4. Numbers 16:29אִם־ · If
    If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.
  5. Numbers 16:30וְאִם־ · But if
    But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
  6. Numbers 17:13הַאִ֥ם
    Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”
  7. Numbers 19:12וְאִם־ · But if
    He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.
  8. Numbers 20:19וְאִם־ · and if
    “We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”
  9. Numbers 21:2אִם־ · If
    So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”
  10. Numbers 21:9אִם־ · If
    So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.
  11. Numbers 22:18אִם־ · If
    But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything small or great to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.
  12. Numbers 22:20אִם־ · Since
    That night God came to Balaam and said, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”
  13. Numbers 22:34אִם־ · if
    “I have sinned,” Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “for I did not realize that you were standing in the road to confront me. And now, if this is displeasing in your sight, I will go back home.”
  14. Numbers 24:13אִם־ · that even if
    …that even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD? I must speak whatever the LORD says.
  15. Numbers 24:22אִם־
    Yet Kain will be destroyed when Asshur takes you captive.”
  16. Numbers 26:33אִם־
    Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
  17. Numbers 26:65אִם־
    For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
  18. Numbers 27:9וְאִם־ · If
    If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.
  19. Numbers 27:10וְאִם־ · If
    If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.
  20. Numbers 27:11וְאִם־ · And if
    And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.’”
  21. Numbers 30:5וְאִם־ · But if
    But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because her father has prohibited her.
  22. Numbers 30:6וְאִם־ · If
    If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,
  23. Numbers 30:8וְ֠אִם · But if
    But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.
  24. Numbers 30:10וְאִם־ · If
    If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,
  25. Numbers 30:12וְאִם־ · But if
    But if her husband nullifies them on the day he hears of them, then nothing that came from her lips, whether her vows or pledges, shall stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will absolve her.
  26. Numbers 30:14וְאִם־ · But if
    But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.
  27. Numbers 30:15וְאִם־ · But if
    But if he nullifies them after he hears of them, then he will bear her iniquity.”
  28. Numbers 32:5אִם־ · If
    “If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
  29. Numbers 32:11אִם־ · not one
    ‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
  30. Numbers 32:17אִם־
    But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.
  31. Numbers 32:20אִֽם־ · If; אִם־ · if
    Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,
  32. Numbers 32:23וְאִם־ · But if
    But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.
  33. Numbers 32:29אִם־ · If
    And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.
  34. Numbers 32:30וְאִם־ · But if
    But if they do not arm themselves and go across with you, then they must accept their possession among you in the land of Canaan.”
  35. Numbers 33:55וְאִם־ · But if
    But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
  36. Numbers 35:16וְאִם־ · If, however
    If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
  37. Numbers 35:17וְאִ֡ם · Or if
    Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
  38. Numbers 35:20וְאִם־ · Likewise, if
    Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,
  39. Numbers 35:22וְאִם־ · But if anyone
    But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
  40. Numbers 35:26וְאִם־ · But if
    But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
  41. Numbers 35:33אִ֖ם
    Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
  42. Numbers 36:4וְאִם־ · And when
    And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”
  43. Deuteronomy 1:35אִם־ · Not
    “Not one of the men of this evil generation shall see the good land I swore to give your fathers,
  44. Deuteronomy 5:25אִם־ · if
    But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer.
  45. Deuteronomy 7:5אִם־
    Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
  46. Deuteronomy 8:2אִם־ · whether or
    Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
  47. Deuteronomy 8:19אִם־ · If
    If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.
  48. Deuteronomy 10:12אִם־
    And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
  49. Deuteronomy 11:13אִם־ · if
    So if you carefully obey the commandments I am giving you today, to love the LORD your God and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,